Sujata Roy and https://batterupwithsujata.wordpress.com 2016. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of the website materials including contents, photographs and images without consent or written permission from this site's author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. You can hyperlink a recipe and its information as a source. For any inquiry feel free to email at sujata.roy24@gmail.com

'

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Blog Stats

I am Sujata Roy. A homemaker, a doting mother to two beautiful grown up children, a blogger, a passionate cook and lastly a foodie. Experimenting in the kitchen is what I love and enjoy doing the most. Specially experimenting with vegetarian dishes and egg-less cakes and cookies is what interests me more. My loved ones are fond of vegetarian cuisines, so I have them in my mind whenever I dish out a new recipe. However, I do not limit my experimental cooking to vegetarian recipes only, non-vegetarian recipe ideas are also dished out. Thank you for visiting my blog. Happy Cooking!

Category: Sweet dish of Bengal

Chhanar jilipi or paneer/cottage cheese jalebi. A sweet made of cottage cheese/paneer or chhena. Taste is almost similar to gulab jamun or pantua.
Get the pantua recipe here.

Posting after a long time. Last time participated in 124th Foodiemonday bloghop on 25th December. And now bloghop time again. This week’s 133rd #Foodiemonday bloghop theme is Holi on my platter.
Sharing a delicious sweet of Bengal, chhanar jilipi.

I never forget to taste this delicacy in my Kolkata visit. But now I don’t have to wait for Kolkata visit. Tried to make it at home. And believe me its very easy.

Now coming to the recipe. You need only few ingredients and homemade fresh paneer or cottage cheese made of full cream milk to make this delicious dish.

Recipe

Milk – 4 cup

Curd – 4 – 5 tablespoon

Refined flour or maida – 2 tablespoon

Semolina or suji – 2 tablespoon

Milk – 3 tablespoon

Milk powder – 2 tablespoon

Cardamom powder – 1 & 1/2 teaspoon

Saffron or kesar – few strands

Sugar – 1 cup

Water – 1/2 cup

Oil or ghee/clarified butter for deep frying

Chopped pistachio to garnish

Method

Heat milk in a heavy bottom pan. When it starts to rolling boil add 4 tablespoon curd. Stir the milk. It will be curdle. If require add 1 tablespoon curd more.

When the greenish whey or water and paneer separated, strain the paneer or cottage cheese with a maslin cloth.
Hang for an hour.

When the water strain out completely take out the paneer on a plate. I have got 1 cup cottage cheese. You can use store bought crumbled cottage cheese or malai paneer. But better to use home made fresh cottage cheese.

Soak 2 tablespoon suji or semolina and few strands of Saffron in 3 tablespoon warm milk.

For sugar syrup mix sugar, water, 1 teaspoon cardamom powder and few strands of saffron in a pan and boil on low flame for 5 – 8 minutes or until the syrup becomes 1 string consistency.

Happy bhai duj to every brother and sister. May success and joy be yours every day.

Bhai Dooj / Bhau-Beej / Bhai Tika / Bhai Phonta is a festival celebrated by Hindus of India and Nepal on the second lunar day of Shukla Paksha in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Kartika.

On the day of the festival, sisters invite their brothers for a sumptuous meal often including their favorite dishes/sweets. The procedure may be different in bihar and central india. The whole ceremony signifies the duty of a brother to protect his sister, as well as a sister’s blessings for her brother.
Carrying forward the ceremony in traditional style, sisters perform aarti for their brother and apply a tika on the brother’s forehead. This tika ceremony on the occasion of Bhai duj signifies the sister’s sincerest prayers for the long and happy life of her brother and treat them with gifts. In return brothers bless their sisters and may treat them also with gifts.

Source – Wikipedia

Presenting a yummy sweet recipe for this auspicious occasion.

Sandesh is a Bengali dessert made of paneer/chhena or cottage cheese. You can make it in home by curdling the milk and separating the whey from it. You can make it with different flavours.

You don’t need much ingredients to make this sandesh. A very simple recipe yet delicious. You will love the chocolaty taste. I have used choco chips over it, if you don’t have choco chips you can use pistachio to make your sandesh beautiful.

May Maa Durga empower you and your family with her nine swaroopa of Name, Fame, Health, Wealth, Happiness, Humanity, Education, Bhakti & Shakti. Happy Navratras. And have a blessed Durga Puja.

Durga Puja is starting from tomorrow. A auspicious occasion of Bengal.

Sharadotsav or Durga puja is an annual Hindu festival in Bengal that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga. It refers to all the six days observed as Shashthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Nabami and Vijayadashami.

We prepare different types of sweets for this occasion.

Sharing one more sweet for this festive season.

Pantua. A delicious melt in mouth dessert. In North India gulab jamun is very famous and its looks like gulab jamun right? But its not gulab jamun. Gulab jamun is made of khoya or milk solid and pantua is made of paneer or cottage cheese.

You can find this sweet in different names and shapes in Bengal.

Pantua can be made round or oval shaped both. There are two more varieties of this dessert. You can call them close cousins of pantua. They are ledikeni and langcha.

Langcha is cylindrical shaped sugar syrup dipped sweet made of the same ingredients of pantua. But darker in colour. In West Bengal Shaktigarh is famous for its langcha. Whenever we travel from Kolkata to Patna by road my brother always stop at Shaktigarh to enjoy this yummy sweet. And we also pack some of these delicious stuff. Here is a picture I have taken in a sweet shop at Shaktigarh.

Ledikeni is also made with same ingredients. Here is an old story about this sweet.

Bhim Chandra Nag a confectioner of Kolkata renamed his pantua ‘ledikeni’. At that time he prepared this specially on the occasion of the birthday of Lady Canning, wife of Governor-General Charles Canning. And she loved these sweets and asked for more. Thus pantua is also called ledikeni 😀

Sending this post to 110th #Foodiemondaybloghop Durga Puja theme.

Pantua is easily available in Bengal and Odisha but not in North India. This melt in mouth delicious dessert is very easy to make. Make it at home and make your festival special.

Make small equal size balls out of the dough. I have made 16 balls. Flatten the ball with your palm. Place a raisin in the middle and close the edges. Make a smooth ball again. Make the balls carefully ensuring no cracks on the balls.

Mix sugar and water in a large pan. Let it boil.

Add cardamom powder and saffron.

When sugar dissolved simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and keep aside.

Heat sufficient oil in a pan. Simmer the heat.

Fry the balls on low heat. Be patience. Don’t increase the flame.

Fry all the balls evenly. Place on a paper towel.

Soak the fried balls in sugar syrup for 1 hour.

Or heat over high flame just to one boil. Remove from heat.

Serve immediately. Or let it cool down at room temperature and keep in refrigerator for later use.

You can serve it chilled but I like it hot. Just heat or microwave for few seconds before serving.

Enjoy the soft delicious melt in mouth pantua.

I would love to hear from you. Please share your thoughts and suggestions in comment.

Its festival time in India. We need some homemade sweets to serve our guests on these auspicious occasions. So trying to share some sweet recipes for this festive season. Stay tuned for more 😊
Kheer Kadam or Kheer kodombo or Kheerkodom is an exotic sweet of Bengal made of mini rasgullas, mashed sweetened and flavoured khoya and roasted poppy seeds.

This sweet is looks like a ball shaped flower Kadam flower or kodombo flower. So it called kheer Kadam or Kheer kodombo. Kheer is a Bengali word for khoya/mawa or dried milk.

Kheerkodom is my most favourite sweet. Earlier my friend Rita Ghosh has made a guest post for me. And she shared this kheer Kadam recipe for us.

Now I have made this sweet in a different way. I have made small sized Saffron rasgulla for it and used store bought khoya burfi for outer layer. But you can make it with homemade khoya or mawa/dried milk too.

My fellow blogger Reena who blog at Cook with Reena encourage me a lot to make this delicious sweet. Thanks a lot Reena. So this post is for you dear.

Recipe is very simple. If you like you can make instant kheer Kadam. Use store bought small sized rasgulla, cover with mashed khoya burfi and roll on dry roasted poppy seeds or desiccated coconut. Easy isn’t it 😊

Recipe

Milk – 1 litre

Curd – 1/2 cup

Saffron – a fat pinch

Sugar – 1 cup

Water – 3 cup

Cardamom powder – 1 teaspoon

Khoya or mawa burfi – 8-10

Poppy seeds or khaskhas as require

Method

Dry roast poppy seeds and keep aside.

Heat milk in a heavy bottom pan. When it starts to rolling boil add curd. Stir the milk. It will be curdle. If require add little more Curd. You can use vinegar or lemon juice too. But you have to wash the cottage cheese properly to remove the smell of vinegar or lemon juice.

When the greenish whey or water and paneer separated, strain the paneer or cottage cheese with a maslin cloth.

Hang for an hour. When the water strain out completely take out the paneer on a plate. Mix saffron with it. You can use little yellow food colour instead of saffron.

Mash the paneer and saffron mixture with the heel of your palm. Knead it at least for 10 minutes or until the paneer becomes smooth and little greasy. Make small balls with it. Balls should be smooth and without any crack.

In a wide pan heat 3 cup water and 1 cup sugar. When the sugar dissolve completely slide the balls into the sugar syrup. Balls will be double so take a large pan.

Cover and cook for 20 minutes. You can check after every 5 minutes.

Remove from heat. Add let it cool down.

Strain the sugar syrup from the rasgullas.

Mash the khoya burfi. If you don’t have burfi. You can use khoya/mawa or dried milk. You can get the khoya or dried milk recipe here.

Mash the khoya. Add powdered sugar to taste and little rose essence. You can add little milk if khoya is too dry.

I have used readymade khoya burfi.

Make small balls with khoya. Flatten with your hand. Place a rasgulla in the center. Close the edges and make a ball again.

Make all the balls like this. Roll the balls on dry roasted poppy seeds or khaskhas.

Kheer kodombo is ready to serve.

Enjoy…….

I would love to hear from you. Please share your thoughts and suggestions in comment.

Its a guest post and 200th post on my blog. My recipe sharing journey started with food group ‘Chef At Large’. And I am very happy to share this recipe of a very talented member of this group.

Panna cotta is an Italian dessert made of sweetened cream thickened with gelatin or agar agar and moulded. Literally meaning of panna cotta is cooked or thickened cream. And this Saffron pistachio sandesh panna cotta is a fusion recipe. You can taste panna cotta in Bengali sandesh.

This is a guest post by Bejaya Sinha. We met each other in a food group Chef At Large. She always amazed me with her delicious recipes and excellent photographs. She is an awesome home cook. Bejaya has shared many of her innovative recipes in food group.

Impressed by her photography skill and innovative recipes I have requested her to make a guest post for my readers.

So here is a delicious dessert for you. Thank you so much Bejaya for this awesome recipe.

Now lets see what Bejaya said about this recipe.

“Kesar Pista Sandesh Panna cotta.

An innovative fusion of Sandesh &Panna cotta.

Absolutely creamy & delicious sweet made with agar agar.

Dedicated to my mother who was an excellent cook..

I have learnt cooking from her specially sandesh.. She used to pack homemade sandesh in our tiffin box and all my friends were crazy about that sandesh..

Now my kids also love sandesh.”

Its a single serving recipe you can make double or more.

Recipe

Soft paneer or cottage cheese – 1 tablespoon

Milk powder 1 teaspoon

Sugar – teaspoon

Milk – 2 tablespoon

Cream – 1 tablespoon

Saffron – a pinch

Agar agar powder – a big pinch

Pistachio – 1/2 teaspoon + 1/4 teaspoon

Cardamom powder – a pinch

Method

Its a single serving recipe. You can make it double or more.
Mash 1 tablespoon sotf paneer or cottage cheese, 1 teaspoon milk powder, 2 teaspoon sugar till smooth.

Authentically its made of thickened sweet milk and caramel. And allowing the milk to ferment overnight. Earthen post is best for making this Misti doi because water evaporate through its porous walls and produces the right temperature for the growth of the culture.

Nowadays you can get lots of flavours in misti doi. Such as aam doi or mango flavoured yoghurt, khajur gur or date palm jaggery yoghurt etc.

We can get it at Kolkata or Delhi sweet shops. First time tasted homemade when spending my summer vacation at my Sejomashi ( maternal aunt’s) home at Delhi. She was an amazing cook. She and my mom is no more with us but still remember the taste of the dishes made by my mom and aunt.

I have got this recipe from my Sejomashi Gargi Gupta. I always followed her recipe without adding any flavour. But in my last Kolkata visit noticed in sweet shops they used whole cardamom in misti doi. So I have added few cardamom. But next time again I will make without cardamom. If you like you can add or add a pinch of cardamom powder.

I remember when my father in law asked after tasted my homemade doi “from where you bought this doi? Its much better than I tasted before. More delicious.” And that was my best reward I have ever get.

Happy Father’s Day in advance. Jagruti Cooking Odyssey requested some blogger friends to link up with her to celebrate Father’s Day. This misti doi was most favourite dessert of my late father and father-in-law. So I am dedicating this post for Father’s Day.

This yogurt takes more time to set than normal plain yogurt. And we set our homemade curd or yogurt with only 1 or 1/2 teaspoon curd. But this yogurt need more curd to ferment. I have added 1/2 cup curd in it. Because I have used fresh homemade curd which is not tangy at all. I am sharing some tricks to set the yogurt easily.

Immediately add in hot reduced milk. Mix well. Add the cardamom if you want. When it starts to boil stir and switch off the flame.

Let the milk become lukewarm. Stir continuously. Don’t let the milk topping set over the milk. Don’t make it completely cool. Milk should be warm and touch it to check. If you can tolerate the heat then its perfect to set.

Remember milk should be lukewarm not hot. If you add curd in hot milk it will curdle.

Whisk the curd well. Mix with reduced milk and whisk again.

Now time to set. You can set it in glass or ceramic pot too. But better try to set in earthen pot for better result.

Because it’s porous walls evaporate​ the moisture. And you will get perfectly set misti doi.

Pour the milk in the earthenware. Cover and keep it undisturbed in a warm place for overnight or 8 – 10 hours.

If the weather is cold then its difficult to set this yogurt. In that case keep the earthen pot in microwave and set the minimum temperature of your microwave. 180 or 200. In my microwave lowest is 180. Just press the power button few times to get desired temperature. Keep the yogurt filled earthen pot in it. start the oven for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes cover and keep it undisturbed in the oven for overnight or 7 – 8 hours.

You will get perfectly set misti doi.

After setting keep it in refrigerator.

Serve chilled. You can garnish with chopped pistachio.

Enjoy the chilled misti doi as a dessert.
Notes –

Don’t make the milk too thick just reduce to almost half.

Whisk well before setting to make it smooth.

If you don’t have microwave keep it in a casserole and close the lid. Or cover the pot with a warm cloth.

Milk should be lukewarm not hot. If you add curd in hot milk it will curdle.

Some more recipes of other talented bloggers for Father’s Day celebration.

This sandesh is a very delicious soft sweet with the aroma of cardamom and chocolate. I am giving both the method of making it. I am out of town this time. Whenever I will reach home, I will make it again and add some pictures of pinwheel shaped sandesh too.

Recipe

Chhena/paneer or cottage cheese – 3/4 cup

Khoya/mawa or dried milk – 3/4 cup

Sugar – 1/4 cup

Cardamom powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Vanilla – 1/2 teaspoon

Cocoa powder – 1 tablespoon
Ghee or clarified butter – 1 tablespoon

Method

Mix paneer/cottage cheese or chhena and khoya/mawa in a plate. Mash well with your palm. Or grind into a smooth paste.

Mix cardamom powder in remaining mixture. Mix well and make a log with it. Place the log on cocoa powder mixed flatten mixture. Roll it and wrap with aluminum foil. Keep in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Cut into desired pieces and serve.
Or
Divide the mixture into two equal parts. Blend cocoa powder and vanilla essence in one and cardamom powder in another part.

Thinly roll out both the halves into equal sized pieces.

Place the chocolate piece on top of the white one. Roll the two tightly together as for Swiss rolls. Wrap with aluminum foil. And keep in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Cut into desired pieces. And serve as pinwheel sandesh.